Queer Notes - April 17

Women's Liberation Is Not a Diversion!

Terry Moon speaks about her involvement in late-1960s "small groups" advocating for women's rights, her introduction to Marxist-Humanism, and the continuing task of highlighting the indispensability of women's liberation as integral to the Idea of human freedom.

Perspectives Thesis 2024-2025

This piece takes up the youth Palestine solidarity movement, the global threat of Trump 2.0, Russia's war on Ukraine, and the worldwide drive toward fascism resulting from a crisis in thought. A look at how an earlier crisis drove Lenin to re-examine Marx and Hegel. What does that tell us about the tasks we have before us today?

Black bookstore forced to close

Liberation Station, a Black-owned children’s bookstore in Raleigh, N.C., is closing less than a year after it opened on Juneteenth 2023, due to a series of threats.

Handicap This - April 17

Takes up: The World Health Organization (WHO) report, ‘Measuring Violence Against Women With Disability’; World Bipolar Day; the “We Are Here” rally in Missouri calling for higher pay for care assistants; and three organizations in Asia sponsoring the UN’s 2024 Project Zero Conference for inclusive education and employment for those with disabilities.

Queer Notes - April 17

Takes up: The shutting down of Great Britain’s Rainbow Badge Scheme, designed to reduce barriers Queer people face in healthcare; the beating and sexual assault of a Gay man and Lesbian by Serbian police; and the imprisonment of British-Mexican Gay man Manuel Guerrero Avina in Qatar.